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🔥 What the future holds for global stability and the balance of power
🚨 Time to rethink the strategy before it’s too late.
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In this compelling analysis from The Duran, we dive deep into:
💥 The escalating tensions between Russia and the EU/UK
⚖️ How the West’s sanctions and aggression are backfiring
🌐 The geopolitical consequences of pushing Russia into isolation
🔥 What the future holds for global stability and the balance of power
🚨 Time to rethink the strategy before it’s too late.
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00:00All right, Alexander, let's talk about Europe and Europe with regards to Project Ukraine
00:08and not only Project Ukraine, but also the United States with the Trump administration,
00:13because it does look like Europe is very upset with the Trump administration.
00:20And they're also very committed to escalating in Ukraine, taking it all the way to some
00:27sort of a hot war with Russia.
00:29At least that's the rhetoric that they're going with, especially the two big EU, two big
00:37European leaders, Macron and Stammer.
00:41France and the UK seem very committed to Project Ukraine, and they also seem very, very angered
00:49with the Trump administration, which does look like it is walking away, disengaging from
00:55Project Ukraine.
00:55So what are your thoughts on Europe, on France, Macron, Stammer, and the position that they're
01:04taking with Project Ukraine, but also with the Trump administration?
01:08You can also throw in there the European Union, the commission with Ursula von der Leyen as
01:12well, who recently said that the collective rest is pretty much over.
01:18And she's now the leader of the free world, by the way.
01:22Anyway, what are your thoughts?
01:23Absolutely.
01:24I mean, what is happening?
01:26And it is extremely concerning.
01:30I mean, there is a sort of absurd quality to it as well.
01:35But I mean, put aside the absurdity, which can at times come across as, I have to say this,
01:43somewhat comical and grandiose.
01:46But what is happening is actually really very worrying, because as every assumption that
01:56the EU leadership has had over the last 30 years basically disintegrates, the idea of
02:03the European Union converting itself into some great big economic superpower.
02:10I mean, way back in the 90s, I remember they were confidently saying that they would take
02:15over from the United States as the world economic leader and driver.
02:20That was the belief then.
02:22As all of that fails, as Project Ukraine increasingly fails, as American policy shifts in response to
02:33the failure of Project Ukraine, what do the EU leaders do?
02:39What does the British government do?
02:41What do Macron, Starmer, Ursula, Kallis, Mautz do?
02:48They dig in and they reject all evidence that it's all going wrong.
02:56And they, in fact, intensify and make their rhetoric even more extreme.
03:04Ursula not only spoke of herself as now the leader of the free world, which is absurd,
03:11making it appear that the United States is no longer free.
03:15There's no articles after articles and commentaries after commentaries talking about the United
03:20States is no longer free and having gone over to the side of autocracy, as opposed to the
03:26EU, which is there guarding the flame of, you know, Western liberal democracy again.
03:33I mean, ludicrous things.
03:37But not only are they saying that, but Ursula still talks about, you know, putting Ukraine
03:44in a strong position in negotiations, which can only be achieved, according to her, by enabling
03:53a Ukrainian victory.
03:55I mean, who any longer seriously believes that Ukraine is capable of achieving a victory?
04:04And Macron and Starmer, they still want to send troops to Ukraine.
04:10They are obsessed with this, even though other European leaders are also starting to have
04:16doubts.
04:17But Starmer and Macron won't change course on this.
04:23They refuse to relax sanctions, even against Russia, even in the slightest way.
04:30Even though increasingly now we see business leaders in Germany at last coming forward and
04:38saying, look, we have got to start getting gas from Russia again, pipeline gas from Russia
04:44again.
04:45The German chemical industry is now in profound crisis.
04:50It is the third biggest industrial sector in the German economy after machine building and
04:55motor vehicles.
04:56And it is now on the brink of collapse.
04:59But no, we must have no relaxation on sanctions at all.
05:04We must press on with sanctions until the Russians capitulate, which everybody can see isn't going
05:12to happen.
05:13And the rhetoric against Russia is increasing that to extreme levels.
05:20The rhetoric, as I said, against the United States is now increasing to extreme levels.
05:24Donald Trump, I mean, the things they're saying about Donald Trump go way beyond even what
05:32they said about him during his first term.
05:35We see an increase in drive to suppress all dissent within the European Union itself.
05:44We have threats made against leaders of countries that attend the Victory Day parade in Moscow on
05:52the 9th of May.
05:53These are sovereign leaders of sovereign states.
05:55We have threats against leaders whose countries are outside the European Union.
06:02So Vucic, who's the president of Serbia, is being told that he must not attend the Victory Day
06:09parade in Moscow on the 9th of May.
06:13Disregarding the fact that putting aside the partisan struggle, the heroic partisan struggle
06:20that was fought in the former Yugoslavia during the Second World War against the Germans,
06:29the country that ultimately liberated what was then Yugoslavia from the Germans was actually
06:35the Red Army, was Russia.
06:38I mean, so you mustn't go to Moscow.
06:41You will suffer severe punishment if you go to Moscow.
06:47This is becoming fanaticism.
06:49It's not becoming policy.
06:51And Ian Proud, British diplomat, somebody who's appeared on our programs, somebody who I think
06:58is completely reliable and who understands these things and knows how to look at the figures,
07:05he's saying that the Starmer government, Keir Starmer, in the middle of a massive budgetary
07:11crisis, where disabled people in Britain are having their benefits withdrawn, and some of
07:18them are being pushed into extreme conditions, that nonetheless, London, the British government,
07:26is apparently planning to send four and a half billion pounds, four and a half billion pounds
07:33of British taxpayers' money, to Ukraine indefinitely every year.
07:39This is fanaticism taken to the point of madness, but there doesn't seem to be any ability to
07:47change or to shift.
07:49And I've noticed now, recently, that even people who have been up to now willing to give the
07:56Europeans some slack, are beginning to see through this, and are beginning to ask, what is going on?
08:06Who are these, what animates and drives these people that they are acting in this kind of way?
08:14And, well, we've discussed this many times, but definitely now, you can see the EU, the European
08:23leaders, I mean, they're on a, they're on a, they're on a runaway car, driving towards the abyss, and
08:32they're putting on the accelerator.
08:36Yeah, Starmer, you, you know, the, he's, he's completely committed to, to Zelensky, the Project Ukraine,
08:44and, and that, dare say, the, the man, Zelensky, for some reason, he's completely committed to, to this guy.
08:51But, as is Macron, it seems, Politico, they, they read an article more focused on, on Trump,
09:01painting Trump as, as the, the evil orange man that is tearing apart the, the Euro-Atlantic
09:08world order, if you want to call it that, the collective West, and how the, the Europeans,
09:14the, the UK, and, and the EU are, are fighting for, for free and, and, and, and, um, a free
09:25and liberal world that, that we've all become accustomed to over, over the many decades, and
09:33they're the ones that are fighting for, for democracy and human rights, and it's Trump that's
09:37tearing everything apart.
09:38But anyway, the, the political article, they actually say in that article that, uh, when
09:43the, the fight in the White House, uh, happened with, with, uh, Zelensky, that, uh, afterwards,
09:50he ran to Stalmer for a hug, pretty much.
09:53I mean, he ran into Stalmer's arms so that he could, he could get some, uh, some, um, some
10:01support from, from the UK, and, uh, and the French then jumped in and they actually wrote
10:07the apology letter to Trump.
10:10It wasn't from, uh, Zelensky, it was from France.
10:15It's, it's, it's incredible, the, the commitment that Macron and Stalmer have, not, not only towards
10:22Ukraine, it seems, but towards Zelensky.
10:24I, I, I can't explain it, I don't know what it is, but they're willing to put it all on
10:31the line for this one man that the world, it seems the world has seen through, the entire
10:38world has seen through this guy, but Stalmer and Macron, nope, they're, they're putting
10:43everything they have into, uh, into Zelensky and, and keeping him, uh, afloat.
10:48It is beyond baffling, by the way, the other thing that Politico article said, and it completely
10:57vindicates our reporting of the time, was that all these, you know, greetings and hugs of
11:06Zelensky that took place after the Oval Office meeting, infuriated Trump himself and annoyed
11:15other members of his team, which of course it was going to do.
11:19So this, this attitude, this embrace of Zelensky by European leaders is deepening the divide
11:28with the United States.
11:29It's weird.
11:30It's as if they wanted, there's some kind of obsession with Zelensky.
11:34What is it?
11:35What do you think it is?
11:36I mean, I, I, I don't, I don't know what it is.
11:37I really don't.
11:38I don't know what it is.
11:39I'll say it again.
11:40The whole world has seen through this guy.
11:41He's not popular anymore either, if it was maybe three years ago when it was cool to
11:46be seen with him.
11:47Okay.
11:48I understand that it, it boosts up your PR, right?
11:51But now the entire world can't stand this guy.
11:54Absolutely.
11:55I mean, uh, Modi, Modi apparently had developed a massive dislike to him, uh, Lula slammed the
12:03door in the face of, uh, uh, Zelensky's envoy, who was a ex Italian prime minister.
12:10Uh, uh, the African states want to have nothing to do with him.
12:13The Arab states want to have nothing to do with him.
12:15Notice the only places he's able to go to now are, are, are, are the, are Europe and
12:22well, to some extent, the United States, but even the Americans have got fed up with him.
12:30They've had as much as they can take with him.
12:32Well, I get to say, I think that beyond the fact that, you know, they have some kind of
12:37particular thing about Zelensky himself, what drives this is a maniacal, and I'm sorry to
12:46use that word, a maniacal loathing of Putin and of Russia, which because Zelensky is opposing
12:54Putin and Russia is, you know, making them rally around and support him and pretend that this man is
13:01Churchill or I don't know what, uh, and, and also, and I have to say this also ages like
13:08of Donald Trump, the fact that Zelensky, that Donald Trump clearly doesn't like Zelensky makes
13:14them embrace him even more.
13:16Um, it, it, it's bizarre.
13:18Um, and, but it's having, it's having consequences because what you see over the last couple of
13:25weeks is that Zelensky, even as his forces on the battlefronts crumble and even as his
13:32economy is going down the tubes, he's regaining his confidence.
13:36He's now called off any idea of elections.
13:39There was a few, there's a certain discussion a few weeks ago about having elections in Ukraine
13:44in May, but all that's now been called off.
13:46He's just extended martial law.
13:49He's, um, basically walked back all the concessions that the Americans wrung out of his negotiators
13:58in Jeddah.
13:59Um, he's completely disregarded the energy truce.
14:03He's launched attacks on every, you know, parts of the, um, Russian energy system.
14:09This isn't even denied.
14:11Nobody's even pretending that Ukraine has made any effort to abide.
14:16Finlund Stoop is denying it.
14:18Finlund Stoop said that, that Zelensky is, is, is committed to all of the energy.
14:23Well, I know, all right.
14:24That's what I'm saying.
14:24This is crazy.
14:25But reporting, reporting in the media doesn't, doesn't deny it.
14:28Yeah, no, but why does Stoop stand up for this guy?
14:31Well, I know, well quite, yes, but all of them are, I mean, they, they are fixated on this,
14:37on this individual and, um, on, on this conflict with Russia, even though, um, as you know,
14:45Fidias, the, you know, Cypriot, um, YouTube, who's our Euro MP said on our live stream,
14:54the live stream that we did with him, you can't win in Ukraine with the United States.
15:01How do you believe you can win without it?
15:03I mean, to talk about helping Ukraine to achieve a victory, it is so completely delusional.
15:11It's, it's off, it's off, you know, it, I mean, they're living on another planet.
15:16But anyway, it, it, it's now become obsessive.
15:19Some European leaders, it must be said, are seeing through this.
15:25I'm not talking here about Orban and Fidso, who were never part of this, but even people
15:30like Maloney now, I think are beginning to distance themselves.
15:34They can see that this is a train wreck, but the big three, Britain, France, and Germany,
15:42for the moment, Germany remain, remain solid.
15:46And, um, well, I said that they were driving the car off the cliff.
15:52Perhaps the reality is that they're already off the cliff.
15:56And, you know, like that cartoon character, they're still running, even though the abyss is
16:00below the, because that's what it increasingly looks like to me.
16:04Meanwhile, the economic crisis in Europe is deepening and is deepening all the time.
16:11You see manifestations of this everywhere.
16:14I spoke about how the German chemical industry is now in absolute crisis and they're pleading
16:21for Russian gas to start to be pipes to them again.
16:25But of course, Mertz, the great, you know, rebuilder of Germany, isn't interested in any of that.
16:34And, well, we see the same in France, in Britain.
16:40They've completely lost all connection with their own people and their people's needs.
16:48And when there are manifestations of dissidents from their people, well, we see what happens.
16:55Marine Repair gets convicted, Giorgescu gets banned.
17:02The media in Germany is already starting a, you know, campaign to get the IFD banned as well.
17:10Stubb, you mentioned Stubb.
17:12But apparently he's having some issues in Finland because some parts of Finland are now in a deep
17:18economic crisis because they relied on trade with Russia.
17:22But apparently anybody there who complains is another Putin a Negro or whatever the rhetoric is.
17:29And we see how this is continuing to gain traction across Europe.
17:35We are no longer in the world of rational politics anymore.
17:39Well, what do you do then to bring Europe back to reality?
17:45The Europeans there, they hate Trump.
17:48They want nothing to do with the United States under Trump.
17:51I say that, if it was under Biden, oh yeah, they would be loving the United States under Trump.
17:57The EU, the Europeans want nothing to do with this America.
18:02They've made that clear, right?
18:04They've obviously, they've cut off Russia, 17th sanctions package.
18:10They want to escalate with Russia.
18:11They want to go into a war with Russia.
18:13You have reports coming out of France saying that Macron and his military advisors there in
18:20Romania working up a plan to enter Odessa or to get to the Black Sea and secure the Black Sea.
18:26You have all of this stuff taking place.
18:28You had a Black Sea meeting in Turkey with Ukraine, Ukraine, France, the UK and Turkey.
18:37France, the UK and Turkey talking about the Black Sea.
18:41I mean, history's repeating itself.
18:44It seems right.
18:46So they need to be very careful because Erdogan will betray them as he betrays everybody in the
18:53end.
18:54That's what he always does.
18:55But anyway, carry on.
18:55Yeah, no.
18:56So if you're, okay, Russia's already moved on from the Europeans.
19:05If you're the United States, if you're the Trump administration, what do you do?
19:08Well, I think.
19:09To bring them back to reality, you walk away.
19:11I mean, Trump walks away, but shouldn't he make it clear to the Europeans?
19:16Look, we're out of Project Ukraine.
19:19Yes, we know that the US was in a proxy war at a minimum with Russia.
19:26We understand that.
19:26Me and you, we understand that.
19:28But the US has the ability to walk away from this, to say we're out of the Project Ukraine game.
19:35But they can make it clear to the Europeans, do whatever you want.
19:40But let me make it clear.
19:42Whatever happens, we are not going to get involved.
19:47Period.
19:48No matter what happens in Europe, we're not getting involved.
19:51I mean, isn't that the most rational decision that the Trump administration can make?
19:57I don't know.
19:57What are your thoughts?
19:58Well, absolutely.
19:59And I'm going to go, I'm going to say something else, going back to your original question.
20:03What can be done to bring these people to their senses?
20:07I think nothing can be done.
20:10When people have already departed so far from reality, there is no way that you can bring them back to reality.
20:18Because they've created an entire mental universe that is outside reality.
20:25The only thing that's going to change things in Europe is reality itself when it crashes through, which sooner or later it will.
20:34And then I'm going to say it again.
20:36And I think that at some level, inevitably, in time, the only way to bring Europe fully to reality is to dismantle the European Union.
20:51You know, I think that is the reality in the end that has to be faced because the European Union has become a absolutely nightmare project and it is distorting everything around it.
21:07So anyway, that is what I think has to happen in Europe.
21:12We unfortunately have to go through this madness in order to come through onto the other side.
21:20The fact that things have become so bizarre at the moment shows how extreme these people have become.
21:32And as I said, nothing is going to make them change or adjust or think in a different way from the way that they do.
21:41So they have to go, basically.
21:43Now, what does the United States have to do?
21:46It has to recognize this, that the people who it regards as its allies are out of their senses and it has to put as much distance between itself and them as possible.
22:00And obviously, they have to do what you said, which is they they need to make it absolutely clear to the Europeans that the United States is not going to be involved in this in any way whatsoever.
22:13But I'm going to suggest that it needs to do something else to reinforce that message, which is it needs to start drawing down troops from Europe, because if American troops are there in Europe in their present numbers, the Europeans will still say to each other.
22:32Well, if we get into a really serious crisis, we can get the Americans to help.
22:37And so you need to signal that you are distancing yourself from Europe by drawing down U.S. troops.
22:46And there are reports that that is exactly what the United States is now starting to do, that they're actually going to start reducing their troop levels in Europe over the next few months and years.
23:02And hopefully that signal will be picked up in Europe and people will understand that, in fact, the Americans are not there.
23:10And that might be a bit of a restraining force.
23:13I don't know.
23:14I have to tell you this, as we close out the video, I read the interview with Ursula Anzite online, the German publication.
23:25And she really does believe that she is doing a great job in Europe and that she is the leader of the free world.
23:33I mean, she really does believe this, that the European Union is doing an amazing job.
23:39Oh, I have no doubt about it.
23:42I mean, that is the nature of fanaticism.
23:46Fanatics believe, absolutely, truly believe in what they're doing.
23:51Of course, there is always cynicism there as well, because fanaticism is the suppression of doubt.
23:58I mean, that that is another feature of fanaticism.
24:03You probably will find if you really bring in, you know, the, you know, do a deep dive into the psychology of these people,
24:11that there is much more nervousness and uncertainty and worry and fear than they're letting off.
24:17But that's not going to affect their behavior and it's not going to visibly detract from their self-belief.
24:26They absolutely believe or at least are sincere in what they're saying and what they're doing.
24:33And as I said, we just have to wait it out.
24:37We have to live through it and it'll be very disruptive and terrible for the people of Europe,
24:42because when I said that they're going to drive off the cliff, it's important to say that we are passengers in this car.
24:50We of us who live in Europe are unwilling passengers in this car, but we have to see it through
24:56and hope that there's enough left when we come through the other end to be able to pick things together.
25:03I believe we will have enough left, more than enough, because, well, Europe is a complex, sophisticated place after all, and a big place.
25:14But, I mean, the damage that's going to be done is going to be enormous.
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